Boy and sleeping girl by candlelight
(Garçon et dormeuse à la chandelle)
1934; printed 1939
plate 26 from The Vollard Suite 1930–37

Pablo PICASSO

Gallery location: Not on display

Artwork Details

Medium

etching, scraper, engraving and aquatint

Measurements

23.7 × 29.8 cm (plate) 34.2 × 44.9 cm irreg. (sheet)

Place/s of Execution

Paris, France

Catalogue/s Raisonné

Geiser/Baer 440.B.d; Bloch 226

Edition

edition of 260, 3rd of 3 states

Printing/Publishing

printed by Roger Lacourière, Paris; published by Ambroise Vollard, Paris

Inscription

inscribed in pencil Picasso (underlined)
inscribed in pencil 385
inscribed in pencil on reverse 39 (in a circle) / 9208

Accession Number

P28-1969

Departments

International Prints / International Prints and Drawings

Credit Line

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1969
© Pablo Picasso/Sussession Pablo Picasso. Licensed by Copyright Agency, Australia
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest

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Gallery location

Not on display

Subjects (general)

Human Figures Relationships and Interactions

Subjects (specific)

bedrooms candles nudity repose (activity) sleeping youth (people)

Boy and sleeping girl by candlelight (Garçon et dormeuse à la chandelle) 1934; printed 1939 plate 26 from The Vollard Suite 1930–37 Pablo PICASSO

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Boy and sleeping girl by candlelight
(Garçon et dormeuse à la chandelle)
1934; printed 1939
plate 26 from The Vollard Suite 1930–37

Pablo PICASSO